General

The traditional peak season in Europe and the United States has not yet begun, but the world's major ports have become a pot of porridge recently!

Congestion in Long Beach, Los Angeles, North America is returning. Vancouver and Toronto have joined the congested port team. The Alliance has announced on the EC5 route that it will continue to jump to the port of Halifax for 8 weeks. No port call will be arranged before September!

Antwerp, the second largest port in Europe, has also begun to congest after Rotterdam and Hamburg. So far, all three major container ports in Europe have fallen!

In Asia, 50,000 containers are crowded into congested ports. The continuous congestion in transit to Singapore and Colombo has caused many shipping companies to stop receiving new bookings in Chittagong, Bangladesh!

Of course, there are also the Port of Durban, South Africa, which has just been suspended due to the riots, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was suddenly closed due to the assassination of the president...

North America: Congestion is coming back, the old congestion in Los Angeles has not gone, and the new congestion in Vancouver and Toronto is coming again!

According to the tracking of One Shipping, the congestion in Long Beach, the largest city in North America after the epidemic, has deteriorated recently. The number of containers waiting in line for berthing has risen sharply, and the waiting time for berthing has returned to more than 5 days.

The latest data from the Port of Los Angeles shows that after setting a record high of more than 1 million TEUs in a single month, Los Angeles will also exceed 170,000 TEUs in a single week for imported freighters next week, an increase of 29.10% from the previous week and compared with last year. During the same period, it soared 78.09%

With the increasing congestion in the port, the waiting time for container ships is also increasing. The latest number of waiting container ships has reached 18, and the average waiting time has reached 5.3 days!

Of course, in addition to Long Beach in Los Angeles, where railroads were suspended due to forest fires, Vancouver and Toronto also joined the congestion and delayed ports!

As of Tuesday (July 13) afternoon, the Port of Vancouver had a serious accumulation of cargo, and there were still as many as 41 ships at anchor in this largest port in Canada. Maersk expects the congestion in the Port of Vancouver will cause at least one week of delays.

Europe: The three major ports of Rotterdam, Hamburg and Antwerp all fall

Following Rotterdam, Hamburg, Felixstowe, and Le Havre, Antwerp is currently the latest Nordic port to be affected by a chain reaction of congestion, and the waiting time for ships to berth has been extended to 5 days.

Congestion has prompted the 2M Alliance to temporarily cancel Antwerp's call on the AE55/Griffin loop for six weeks!

This suspension plan will start with the 23936TEU "MSC Diletta" ship departing from China in the 28th week.

In addition, the “MSC LA SPEZIA” round of the loop will be “postponed down” from week 29 to week 30. The revised ETA will arrive in Shanghai on August 1, 2021, to cope with the current challenging market situation.

Maersk said: Due to the "high storage yard density and particularly long waiting time for ships", the company has decided to skip the AE55 route to dock in Antwerp. MSC stated that Antwerp's landside and berth congestion "affected the reliability of the shipping schedule and caused shipment delays."

Prior to this, the 2M Alliance’s AE6/Lion service will skip Le Havre and retain the stop in Antwerp.

▍The congestion situation in the Port of Rotterdam and Hamburg has not been alleviated

The two largest ports in Europe, the Port of Rotterdam and the Port of Hamburg, have been successively abandoned by the The Alliance, the 2M Alliance and other shipping companies after being congested.

According to the latest information from Shipxun.com, the congestion situation in the ports of Rotterdam and Hamburg has not been alleviated so far.

Asia: The transit port in Singapore is heavily congested, and India and Chittagong are facing paralysis!

Compared with Europe and the United States, the congestion of some ports in South Asia is more deadly, but due to the weak economic status of the port and the country where it is located, the congestion is ignored by the industry and the media!

According to the Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO), there are currently nearly 50,000 containers backlogged in major ports in India!

According to the data provided by the Container Liner Association of India (CSLA), congestion caused at least 55% of the container fleet to be trapped in various ports or water, which exacerbated the shortage of containers in the region.

Indian ports need to release boxes to clear congestion

The Federation of India’s Export Organisation(FIEO) has highlighted there is an immediate need of releasing close to 50,000 containers held up at different Indian ports.

▲The congested major ports are crowded!

It is reported that because the container ship stays in the port for too long, the seller refuses to pay for the high cabin and cabinet rents. This has led to a vicious circle of nearly 50,000 containers at Indian ports.

▍Chittagong, abandoned by Hapag-Lloyd, is still congested today

Due to the shrinking capacity of feeder ships, the congestion of regional transshipment ports and the delay of berthing at Chittagong Port, the Inland Container Depot (ICD) has stored more than 14,000 export containers.

Hapag-Lloyd expects this situation to continue until at least the end of July, and announced that it will suspend accepting bookings for shipments from Singapore to Chittagong.

Nearly 10% of the limited capacity is consumed in the global port of Saigon!

10%of the world’s shipping capacity has been taken out due to port congestion issues

According to Lars Jensen, the founder of Vespucci Maritime, a container consulting company, predicts:

Due to serious port congestion, about 10% of the global capacity is consumed waiting for berthing.

The latest global port congestion situation released by maritime data service provider eeSea shows: Recently, the proportion of berthing ships in some major container ports around the world has reached a new high compared with the proportion of container ships waiting to berth! Take Hong Kong as an example. The proportion of container ships waiting to berth in Hong Kong is as high as 67%. Oakland, Savannah, Seattle, and Vancouver are all over 65%!

Unbearable, the shipping company introduced sky-high port congestion charges!

In the face of congestion, some shipping companies and shipping alliances have introduced port skipping or suspension measures, and some shipping companies have directly stopped receiving new bookings. However, many shipping companies, including Maison and Yixing, have begun to introduce port congestion charges. The closing rate is also jaw-dropping!

Among them, Mason Shipping announced last week that it will again increase the port congestion fee of US$2,000 per container to the US West Port from August 5th. This is the third step of the port congestion fee that began to increase on June 10th. Three port congestion After the fees are superimposed, the 45-foot container is as high as 5697 US dollars! !

The port is not the most congested, only more congested! The port congestion fee is also not the highest, only higher, if the port congestion situation continues to deteriorate.

Foreign trade export and freight forwarding logistics companies, do it and cherish it!